The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-29
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local

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The names of two or three passenger conduct
ors the j., M. & I road have been dropped
from the payroll, and freight conductors pro-
NOTED to fill their places.
The freight on coal to Chicago is So 25. and the
rate to Cleveland will probably be 81. but the
same was not definitely agreed upon. The rate
on coke to all Western points was also reduced.
The earnings of the L., N. A. & G. road the
third week in March exceeded those Of the cor
responding week in 1856 So 361 The increase in
passenger earnings is as marked as in freight
earnings
President ingalls,, of the c.. l., St L. & O.,
has made decided success of his refunding
scheme All of the bonds which fall due before
1891 have been turned in and q four per cent
bond substituted.
The New York Knights of Labor object to the
confirmation of Michael ]. Richard as railroad
commissioner because he is member of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and OPP
posed to their order.
District passenger agents at this point have
received positive instructions to make no con-
tracts to carry parties at less than tariff rates,
their orders now being to get business on the
merits OF their respective routes.
The Merchants Dispatch brought into Indian
apolis in the twenty four hours ending Sunday
at P. M. sixty two carloads of merchandise for
Indianapolis proper. Merchants are improving
the time before the new tariff takes effect
A meeting of presidents of the trunk-line and
Central Traffic Association roads is to be held in
New York to-day, to take action on the with
drawal of the Chicago & Grand Trunk. The
latter road is more than likely to be granted the
desired differentals.
Peck & Johnson civil engineers, with a party
of assistants, yesterday began the survey for
connecting link of the c., II. q !. with the e.,
W. e NJ. The survey is to be made from Rush
vile, on the c., 81. & l., to Anderson, the south
ern terminus of the c., ". & NJ.
Considerable has been said about the Ives. Stay
nor & Co. syndicate gathering into their system
the Dayton e Dephos road. AS the parties from
whom they made their purchase have been en-
deavoring to unload it on some one for months,
it does not look to be much of prize.
The decision of the Southern railway passan-
ger agents to continue issuing thousand mile
and Communication tickets, and to make no change
in rates, shows that those gentlemen are not
disposed to punish the public for the offense Of
stopping determinations severely railway
princes on Northern lines.
Railroad men will be much interested in the
experiment of closely coupled cars TO be tried on
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad next
week. Many engineers claim that they could
| handle their trains better if there were no
SLACK" They have not the same confidence in
the ''slack" of bridges. however.
| The Woodruff Sleeping ear Company has made
ARRANGEMENTS to have all the repairs OF it's
cars done at the shops of the indianapolis, Deca
| tur g. Springfield Railroad Company There are
| some forty to be put through the shops as fast
| as they can be brought in. Five are now being
practically rebuilt at these shops.
The agents of fast freight lines at this point
have received notices that they must at once
call in special contracts. all old tariffs and sup
| plements, and before making any more con-
tracts await further orders. Present indications
| are that through traffic will be at standstill
| for few days after the new law goes into eff
| feet
The statement from New York that the Ives.
| Staynor & Go. syndicate have purchased the
Louisville. New Albany & Chicago road is de-
| MED on good authority. The relations existing
between this syndicate and the Dowd syndicate,
| which controls the L., n A & c.. such as
| to make deal of that character almost out OF
the question.
Pennsylvania railroad official. when asked it,
under the new order, a railroad company was
not obliged to publish the rates ten days before
they went into effect, said: "Certainiy, if any
| advance is made within the jurisdiction of the
law. which means freight passing for two States
or more; but the law will not be strictly observed
| under impossbilities.
General Manager Moore, of the Indiana Mid
land road has received instructions to at once
fix upon the most feasible line for extending the
road west from Lebanon. He, with a compe
| tent civil engineer, will this morning begin the
work. and will look over three routes to the Goa
felds-one via Charlottesville another via La6o
ga and a third via Rossvills.
notice has been issued by the Erie road I,
its passenger and freight conductors stating tina
book entitled professional Criminals Of Amer
lea" has been placed in the ticket office at Sus
| quehanna for their inspection. The conductor
| are instructed to examine the work and familiar
ize themselves with the countenances of tn,
criminals in order that they may protect passen
| gers from them.
The management of the Chicago st. Louis 4
| Pittsburg road give notice that the issue O
passes to the members of the families of en-
ployes will be continued but must be confine
to their immediate families living in the sam
house. The free carriage of their household Of
fects is also authorized when necesstated by
, change in their places of employment in tn
service of the company.
The Columbus, Indianapolis & Western Raj
road Company will, soon as the organizatio
is perfected, make extensive Improvements t
; their shops at this point and also build goo
freight depot Both improvements they ar
!, badly in need of. The freight depot will proba
r bly, be built on their ground on South street
just south of the Vandaa depot lying betwee
Tennessee and Mississippi streets.
Articles of incorporation were yesterday file
> Western Railroad Company. The principal Of
fee is to be at Peoria. Capital stock, a. 500 00t
The railway is to extend from a point on tn
eastern boundary limo Of Illinois, in Iroquoi
. county, to the city of Warsaw and TO the tow
of Hamilton, on the Mississippi river and, by
! branch, from LaHarpe to Burlington, Ia.
, The favorable results 80 shown by the state
ments of the managements of the Pennsylvani
lines west of Pittsburg on the business of tn
, first two months of the year is favoraby com
, mented on by the editors of Eastern financia
papers. The net results of operations of th
! Western lines are compared with reports of 1885,
which were but mere trife better than thos
, for 1885. Now that the deficit has been change
! to good-sized surplus, the same policy of larp
! improvement OUTLAWS may be looked for on th
! Western lines
Indications are that the present owners Of tn
3 Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton system Of road
: are to load the properly down with debt. TIL
company for many years has been in splendi
1 shape financially, and paying dividends reeula
t ly; but the outlook darkens for the stockholder
t The New York Times reports that it is stated
by gentleman who has knowledge of the I've
syndicate plans, that it is proposed to issue SIG
600, 900 collateral trust bonds of the Cincinnati
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